Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 1987
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Jul 28, 1987, 10:33 PM MDT for Grant County, Sierra County, New Mexico. It was in force for 87 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 28, 1987, 10:33 PM MDT (04:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 29, 1987, 12:00 AM MDT
- In force
- 87 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Grant County, NM, Sierra County, NM
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 00:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 156 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3626 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KABQ 290432 FFWABQ NMC017-051-290600- BULLETIN...EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 1033 PM MDT TUE JUL 28 1987 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT MDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NEW MEXICO...EASTERN GRANT AND WESTERN SIERRA A CLUSTER OF HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING SLOWLY NORTHWARD INTO THE EASTERN PORTION OF GRANT COUNTY AND THE WESTERN PORTION OF SIERRA COUNTY AT 1030 PM MDT THIS EVENING. THE SHERIFFS OFFICE IN DEMING ESTIMATES THAT AROUND AN INCH AND A HALF OF RAIN FELL IN DEMING IN LESS THAN AN HOUR AS THE STORMS MOVED THROUGH THAT AREA...CAUSING CONSIDERABLE STREET FLOODING AND SOME ROAD CLOSINGS. HEAVY RAINS MAY DEVELOP IN EASTERN GRANT AND WESTERN SIERRA COUNTIES DURING THE NEXT HOUR CAUSING LOCALLY FLOODING OF ROADS...SMALL STREAMS AND NORMALLY DRY ARROYOS. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR HAS ACTUALLY BEEN REPORTED..SO TAKE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS IMMEDIATELY. REMEMBER.. MANY FLASH FLOOD DEATHS RESULT FROM MOTORISTS DRIVING INTO WATER-COVERED CROSSINGS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH. MJF
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 28, 5:35 PM MDT, 4 hours 58 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 535PM MDT TUE JUL 28 1987 ...VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS MOVING TOWARD THE ALBUQUERQUE METRO AREA... DURING THE LAST HOUR A HEAVY RAIN SHOWER MOVED THROUGH THE FOUR HILLS SECTION OF ALBUQUERQUE DUMPING NEARLY HALF AN INCH OF RAIN IN A 15 MINUTE PERIOD. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING ALONG THE WEST SLOPES OF THE MANZANO MOUNTAINS AND THESE STORMS ARE MOVING NORTHWARD TOWARD THE EASTERN SECTIONS OF ALBUQUERQUE. THEY MAY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN AS THEY MOVE NORTHWARD AT AROUND 15 MILES AN HOUR. LOCAL FLOODING OF STREETS...INTERSECTIONS AND NORMALLY DRY ARROYOS IS LIKELY DURING THE NEXT HUOUR. PLEASE DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE THROUGH LOW WATER CROSSINGS AS THE WATER CAN RISE QUITE SUDDENLY...EVEN IF IT IS NOT RAINING AT YOUR LOCATION. MJF
Special weather statement, Jul 28, 6:40 PM MDT, 3 hours 53 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 640PM MDT TUE JUL 28 1987 ...HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE MOVING TOWARD ALBUQUERQUE... HEVY THUNDERSTORMS WITH BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING HAVE BEEN MOVING NORTHWARD THROUGH THE ALBUQUERQUE METRO AREA SINCE AROUND 500 PM. RADAR AND SATELLITE PICTURES INDICATE ADDITIONAL STORMS SOUTH OF THE CITY MOVING NORTHWARD AT AROUND 10 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS MAY ALSO PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AS THEY MOVE THROUGH THE CITY. LOCAL FLOODING OF STREETS...INTERSECTIONS AND NORMALLY DRY ARROYOS MAY CONTINUE THIS EVENING. PLEASE DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE THROUGH LOW WATER CROSSINGS OF NORMALLY DRY ARROYOS AS THE WATER CAN RISE QUITE SUDDENLY...EVEN IF IT IS NOT RAINING AT YOUR LOCATION. ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED IF CONDITIONS WARRANT. MJF
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in New Mexico, 1987Every flash flood warning in 1987
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.